DAF Tokyo had many excellent works and visitors could experience the various relationships between technology and art. Not only about the works, but there were also performances by artists. Especially, live performances at the Miraikan which cannot be ignored.

“Demi-pas”, Julien Maire (2002)

Beginning with a speech by Mamoru Mori, a director of the Miraikan and also an astronaut, the live performances in a special program kicked off. The first one was “Demi-Pas” by Julian Maire who I wrote about 2 years ago in an article of Transmediale, followed by “Scribble” by Golan Levin and Gregory Shakar, a live performance of their work having a concept of “Audiovisual Material”, which was produced for Ars Electronica in 2000. Conceptual images were drawn by light lines on two screens, and also conceptual sounds were produced that connected with the lines. It showed the information for visual and audio sensations, they were perfectly linked up.

“Drawn”, Zachary Lieberman + Pardon Kimura (2005)

I was excited with the sound experience and the completely new visuals of “Drawn” by Zachary Lieberman and Pardon Kimura. It was an unbelievable work that live drawing was projected on the screen and it suddenly moved and played music at the same time. The quality was also amazing, and I felt really lucky to be there at that moment. The audience must have had a big shock to the huge potential of this in a time when various software is being pursued to merge sounds and visuals.

“Scrapple”, Golan Levin + Gregory Shakar (2005)

Another work by Golan Levin and Gregory Shakar “Scrapple” had a different approach from “DRAWN” but the same pursuit of simultaneity between sounds and visuals. That a camera projected a table on the screen, and the screen had scanning lines moving in a regular cycle direction from one side to the other side. If an object touched the scanning lines, then sounds came out. If grasping the meaning of the screen as a measure, the object could be a note. I would like to see a collaboration with this technology and a great minimal music player.